About Me

For the past 10 years TheresaAnn has been active as an advocate for Alternative Health Therapies. The author of a soon to be published book on Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, TheresaAnn has been delving into the upstate New York fields of therapeutic Essential Oils for over 7 years. For more information check out, http://www.tarunaoils.com

Essential Oils For Healthy Puppies

Essential oils are pure oils or the essence of plants. These essential oils are completely and 100% natural. These are natural because they are extracted naturally from the glands, sacs or veins of plants or aromatic flowers. Essential oils are well...

Why Cocoa Beans are Super Food

Are you thinking about including dark chocolate in your diet to support your health? If you've heard there are health benefits associated with consuming dark chocolate, but you wonder how "candy" can be good for you, a closer look at cocoa beans can...

The Sounds of Healing Gongs

If you've ever attended a symphony concert, you're familiar with the powerful presence of the gong. Just seeing the gong on stage creates a sense of excitement and wonder as you wait to hear its deep, rich swelling sound. We associate gongs with powe...

Essential Oils in Hair Care

Wouldn't it be nice to wash your hair and skin with something natural and not with something that is full of chemicals? Why would you want to poison yourself with chemicals in shampoos that have mild to moderate toxicity ratings by the EPA? Wouldn't...

How to Deal With Stress Using Essential Oils

No matter what age group you belong to, stress has become a common feature in almost everyone's life. By and large everyone experiences certain degree of pressure at work, in academics and even at home. It often leads to poor performance and producti...

Methods of Extracting Essential Oils

Essential oils, also known as volatile or ethereal oils are concentrated, hydrophobic liquids that contain volatile fragrant plant compounds. There are a number of essential oils that have been used as medicines many times to help people lead a fit a...

Essential Oil Insect Repellant

Are you looking forward to the summer season? Dreading having to use insect repellant that is full of chemicals? Are you ready to try something different? How about using insect repellant that utilizes the natural properties of essential oils? Ever...

Tibetan Healing Medicine

Whether you are interested in maintaining your good health or you are seeking treatment for a specific health condition or physiological disorder, Tibetan Healing Medicine can help. Tibetan Healing Medicine is a very ancient, holistic approach to hea...

Cool sprays - Beating the heat with essential oils

Come summer and you have the hot summer breezes, the 'hot' flashes, the sweat, the sunburn, the rash and so many things that just make you feel hot and uncomfortable; things that make you beg for the winters to come! What better way to cool yourself...

The Principles of Reflexology

Reflexology is one option you have for treating pain and other discomforting symptoms of illness. Reflexology involves manipulating special reflex points in the feet and hands that correspond with joints, muscles, bones, organs and systems throughout...

The Health Benefits of Practicing Ashtanga Yoga

Ashtanga yoga is a very powerful yoga. It involves a sequence of Hatha postures that are practiced continually. These postures are performed in combination with internal muscle contractions, or bandhas, as well as ujjayi breath. When these elements a...

The Health Benefits of Hatha Yoga

Yoga has long been used by ancient cultures in the East as a healing therapy for the mind, body and spirit. It has been widely accepted in the West over the past few decades as a method of relaxation and to treat certain health conditions. Western do...

The Health and Aromatherapy Benefits of Sandalwood Essential Oil

For at least the past four thousand years, sandalwood essential oil for aromatherapy has been touted as an invaluable resource due to its many healing benefits as well as its highly fragrant, yet delicate and pleasing aroma. Described as floral, but...

Why Drink Herbal Teas?

Herbal teas, you have heard all about them, but are not entirely sure how they are going to help you and your body. What you may not know or maybe you have heard, but just cannot seem to believe that something as simple as tea can be this beneficial,...

Using Yoga to Overcome Insomnia

Having difficulty sleeping is something that is an issue with thousands of people. Being tired and unable to properly rest the body can create a number of serious issues from health, to family, to work related and while plenty of pills exist that can...

What is a Macrobiotic Diet?

Take a look around today, and you'll quickly see that more and more people are becoming concerned about what they are eating and how it affects their health. In fact, just doing a search on the internet for health diets will bring up thousands of res...

The Flowing Grace of Anusara Yoga

Yoga has been growing in popularity not just among adults but children as well as a great way to keep the body in shape and relieve stress. It is also a great way to bring oneself into balance with nature and the world through the use of movements an...

What Is Acupuncture?

The next time you visit your doctor's office or medical care facility, take a look around and you'll probably see flyers or pamphlets advertising acupuncture treatments. Almost everyone has heard about acupuncture, and most people know that it invol...

What is a Vegan Diet?

Do you know someone who is a vegan, or that follows a vegan diet? Maybe you've heard about the health benefits associated with a vegan diet, and you're curious what exactly it means to eat as a vegan. Whether you're considering adopting a vegan diet...

The Practice of Iyengar Yoga

Created by B.K.S. Iyengar, Iyengar yoga has the distinction of using props as aids in performing the postures or asanas. Belts, cushions, benches, straps, sand bags and blocks are typical props used. Iyengar yoga is firmly rooted in the traditional e...

The Wonders of the Goji Berry

Health conscious men and women around the world are taking advantage of the many benefits associated with consuming Goji berries. Goji berries have received an increasing amount of attention recently as more and more health benefits related to their...

Ayurveda and Aromatherapy

The branch of Hindu Vedas scripture from India called Ayurveda is the oldest known written work concerning health. The practice of Ayurveda is approximately 3,000 years old. Ayur means life, and veda means knowledge. The overall goal of Ayurveda is t...

The Therapeutic Benefits of Yoga for Arthritis

If you suffer from painful and debilitating arthritis, you're probably doing all you can to help improve your condition. A nutritious diet rich in fruits, vegetables, grains and low fat protein sources can help manage and even deter the onset of arth...

A Guide to Aromatherapy Soy Candles

For at least the past 5,000 years, man has been growing the soybean and using the oft named "miracle crop" for a variety of different products and uses. Aromatherapy soy candles are often used as alternative to candles made from paraffin wax by those...

The Fascinating World of Aromatherapy

The term "aromatherapy" didn't surface until the 20th century, although the practice itself has literally been in use for thousands upon thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians used a variety of essential oils for embalming the dead, such as clove,...

The Effects of Mantra Meditation

Mantra Meditation is a simple, enjoyable way to improve your health and the quality of your life in a variety of ways. Many scientific studies have been done on the effects of Mantra Meditation. Time and time again, research has confirmed that the be...

How You Can Benefit From a Vegetarian Diet

More and more people are switching to a vegetarian diet every day, and the number one reason is better health. Vegetarians are healthier than their meat-eating counterparts. This is a fact that has been proven in clinical studies, not an opinion. The...

Why Yoga is Beneficial for Women's Bodies

Women handle a variety of stresses that are unique to them alone. These stresses can cause significant difficulties if they are not properly managed. Women must be careful to deal with the hormonal changes that occur monthly, as well as during pregna...

What Is Reiki

Reiki is an ancient technique created by the Japanese. It comes from two words Rei and Ki, in the Japanese language. Rei is translated into the English language as the Higher Power or God's Wisdom. Ki translates into the English language as Life Forc...

How Yoga Benefits The Senior Generation

In today's world, Seniors are living healthier, more active, and ultimately more productive lifestyles than they did ten to twenty years ago. As the average lifespan increases, so does the desire to live healthier, remain fit, and remain active. Seve...

The Ancient Science of Pranayama

The ancient science of Pranayama is an ancient science of breathing. You may be skeptical but there is actually a science to breathing properly. People normally take breathing for granted. It is an automatic function that unless you have problems wit...

Yoga and Ayurveda

Today in America, yoga has become more and more popular; in fact, in the past few years, the number of people in America that practice a type of yoga has more than doubled. Better than ¾ or fitness clubs now offer yoga and it is one of the fastest gr...

The Practice of Yoga for Children

Yoga is one exercise that is fun, relaxing and can be done by people of all ages. Getting children into the practice may prove a little difficult after all this is a practice that is done slowly, has a meditative quality and involves controlled breat...

Essential Oils To Buzz Off Summer Bugs

Do you dread the summer months because of the swarms of mosquitoes, insects and other kinds of 'icky' bugs that come along with it? Don't let the bugs bite you this summer - or bees, ticks or even snakes! So, if you're going on a summer trip, it woul...

Aromatherapy for dogs - Choosing essential oils

Simply put, aroma therapy is the therapy involving smells or aromas. These aroma's are not synthetic, but are natural aroma's which are taken from essential oils from aromatic plants. Aromatherapy is essentially used to improve behavior and in some c...

Enjoy Good Health with Aromatic Lemon Essential Oil

Aromatherapists have long been administering lemon oil (botanical name - citrus limonum) to those needing to improve their physical health as well as their emotional health. The zesty, invigorating odor of lemon essential oil offers the lifting effec...

Citrus Oil Basics

When one thinks of citrus, the first thing that comes to the mind is the warm summer breeze with the smell of oranges in the air. Its clean and invigorating scent can awaken the body and mind. The most popular citrus oils are lemon, orange, grapefrui...

Commonly Used Essential Oils For Horses

Selecting oils for your horse can be very tricky, as different horses may require different types of oils. In order to check how well a particular essential oil would suit a horse, you need to take a few drops of oil in your palms, rub them and offer...

Winter Care With Essential Oils

Essential oils are very popular with everyone and are especially used due to their relaxing and soothing properties. You can either choose to diffuse them, add it to your bath or use it while massaging. Either ways, the fragrance from these essential...

Welcome The Fragrant Therapy of Jasmine Essential Oil

The jasmine flower contains oils that can be extracted for many uses. The delicate jasmine flower is a small white star set against simple tri-foliate evergreen leaves. The fragrance imparted by the jasmine is sweet and provocative. The flower is nat...

Fighting Insomnia With Essential Oils

Do you have problems sleeping at night? Do you go to sleep easily, but find yourself waking several times during the night? Did you know that you could be suffering from insomnia?

Tea Tree Oil Remedies For Sunburn

Most of us enjoy sunbathing, but none would like sunburn. Tea tree oil is a proven remedy for sunburn. Tea tree oil, one of the strongest natural antiseptic is an essential oil that can be obtained by steam distillation of melaleuca alternifolia leav...

Essential Oils for Healthy Hair

Have you ever wished for healthier, shinier or cleaner hair? Well you are not alone. Millions of people worldwide wish they had better hair. Getting healthier and shinier hair may seem like a colossal task to most people. But it is not that difficult...

The Benefits of Green Tea

Do you know that exposure to pollution and toxins are practically inevitable in today's world? Toxins are in the food water and air we take in daily! If you aren't concerned about this you should be. Because of pollution and toxin exposure being pra...

Experience the Benefits of Peppermint Essential Oil

Peppermint Oil (botanical name - mentha piperita) can be applied to a great variety of physical ailments within the field of aromatherapy. Peppermint imparts a crisp, fresh, and exhilarating scent. In addition to its refreshing sensation peppermint...

Lavender Essential Oil

Offering a multitude of curative properties, essential oils have been used since ancient times. With today's rising demand for aromatherapy, essential oils are commonly being used to treat many illnesses at home and at facilities such as hospitals, c...